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This Day in 1967: Joni Mitchell’s First UK Show (Article)
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
49 years ago today, Joni Mitchell performed her first show in the UK. Having performed in a variety of cities throughout the US and Canada, Mitchell made her way across the pond in August 1967 to make her London live debut at the famed Marquee Club, but it’s a testimony to how early in her career she still was at the time that she wasn’t even headlining. Instead, she opened for a band with the none-more-British name of The Picadilly Line…and, no, that’s not a typo: there’s only one “c.” (We checked.) If you’re not familiar with The Picadilly Line, that’s none too surprising, as the band
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Happy Anniversary: Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door (Article)
Monday, August 22, 2016
37 years ago this month, Led Zeppelin released what would prove to be their final album of all-new material. Its title inspired by the trials and tribulations of battling back from their tax-exile status and getting into the public eye once more, In Through the Out Door was Led Zeppelin’s first new studio album in three years, but in the interim since the release of Presence in 1976, much had gone on in the lives of the band members. As a result, In Through the Out Door has a slightly different feel than some of the albums which preceded it, not least of which because John Paul Jones and
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Out Now: Black Sabbath Reissues (Article)
Friday, August 5, 2016
Black Sabbath is currently in the midst of their farewell tour, and if you’re a fan of the band and were already well aware of this sad fact, then we’re sorry for putting it first and foremost in your mind again, but there’s a reason for us having done so: as a way of paying tribute to these heavy metal legends, we’re reissuing the band’s first eight studio albums. It’s a perfect time to take a dip back into their catalog, so we here at Rhino want to make sure that Black Sabbath’s albums are all out there, ready for you to give them another listen. You could probably recite the titles of these
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Doing a 180: Have Yourself a Jazzy Friday (Article)
Friday, August 5, 2016
Rhino has made it a point to reissue classic albums on 180-gram vinyl on a regular basis. These are the latest to get that treatment. You're welcome. Charlie Mingus, Blues & Roots (Mono) – You already know Mingus’s work as a jazz man, but you may not be as aware of his appreciation of the blues. Recorded at the behest of Atlantic legend Nesuhi Ertegün, who suggested the album because critics were complaining that Mingus supposedly “didn’t swing enough,” the end result may indeed swing, but it does a whole lot more than that. Miles Davis, Amandla – This was the final collaboration between Davis
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Happy Anniversary: Testament, Practice What You Preach (Article)
Thursday, August 4, 2016
27 years ago today, Testament released their third studio album, an effort which found them getting more serious with their lyrics and, possibly not coincidentally, found them securing their first chart placement in the upper half of Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart. Recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, Practice What You Preach was a real line-in-the-sand album for Testament in terms of the topics they were covering in their lyrics, setting aside the more occult-themed lyrics of their previous LPs in favor of getting political and sociological. “We were starting to write more
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Doing a 140: Earth, Wind & Fire (Article)
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Okay, okay, we know “Doing a 140” doesn’t have even remotely the same ring as “Doing a 180,” but what can we tell you? These particular reissues are on 140-gram vinyl rather than 180-gram vinyl, so we felt like it was better to be factual. It’s just the right thing to do, you know? (Also, it’s the legal thing to do, so there’s that as well.) Oh, and if you’ve looked at the words “Earth, Wind & Fire” and thought, “Ah, I’ve already got a best-of collection,” then reconsider your position at least long enough to keep reading, because you might be surprised at what you’ll learn. Earth, Wind & Fire
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This Day in ’69: CSN gains a Y (Article)
Monday, July 25, 2016
47 years ago this summer, Neil Young joined forces with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash, adding a letter to an already-familiar acronym and, for whatever tension it might’ve brought to the existing trio on occasion, resulted in some of the greatest music of the rock era. As a result of his membership in Buffalo Springfield, Young and Stills were certainly intimately acquainted, and in a very real sense, it was Stills who was responsible for Young’s introduction into the collaboration. Not just because of the fact that he already knew Young, but also because it was his work on
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Introducing Led Zeppelin - The Complete BBC Sessions (Article)
Friday, July 22, 2016
Remastering Supervised By Jimmy Page With Previously Unreleased Recordings CD, Vinyl, And Digital Formats, Including Super Deluxe Boxed Set, Available September 16 Nearly 20 years ago, Led Zeppelin introduced BBC SESSIONS, an acclaimed two-disc set of live recordings selected from the band's appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. On September 16th, the band will unveil THE COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS, an updated version of the collection that's been newly remastered with supervision by Jimmy Page and expanded with eight unreleased BBC recordings, including three rescued from a previously
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Follow and Win: Greatest Hits "Greats" Giveaway (Article)
Friday, July 15, 2016
We're not much for boasting, but when it comes to the musical pantheon of "greats," we admit to having quite a few! See what we mean when you enter to win our Greatest Hits "Greats" Giveaway. Simply follow the Topsify Greatest Hits playlist on Spotify via the link below and you'll have a shot at taking home coveted must-haves from our "greats" like an Eddie Van Halen Standard Gloss Black Stoptail Bridge guitar, The Monkees THE COMPLETE SERIES on Blu-Ray, John Coltrane THE ATLANTIC YEARS IN MONO on 180-gram vinyl, The Smiths LOUDER THAN BOMBS on 180-gram vinyl, and David Bowie ZIGGY STARDUST
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Once Upon a Time at the Top of the Charts: Duran Duran, “A View to a Kill” (Article)
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
31 years ago today, Duran Duran completed their climb to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “A View to a Kill,” which still stands as the only James Bond theme song to have made it to that particular pinnacle. The single was the last recorded gasp of the original five-man lineup of Duran Duran until the release of the band’s 2004 album Astronaut. “Yes, but what a gasp!” laughed John Taylor, when presented with this statement during a 2012 interview with the A.V. Club. True enough. The song also served as part of the set list when the band played Live Aid on this very day in 1985, which was
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